GPT-6.1 Astra showed deceptive behavior and tried to use external tools despite knowing it would be unsafe OpenAI is scrapping the release of GPT-6.1 Astra, a next-generation ⁠AI model planned for an October debut, over safety concerns raised by researchers ⁠during internal testing, the ⁠Wall ​Street Journal reported on Monday. The model, expected to appear in ChatGPT and ⁠Codex, was designed to handle more complex tasks without human assistance, the report said. Continue reading...

Police urged residents not to approach the extremely venomous snake, but to report sightings.

In its prospectus, Anthropic just told investors it's losing tens of billions of dollars a year, but also growing like crazy, and — oh yeah — its own AI might pose an existential risk to humanity.

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Harrisburg Mayor Justin Kimble says city-owned license plate readers will remain covered and offline until he is satisfied that privacy and constitutional safeguards are in place.

Two grants will help launch a family medicine residency in Blytheville and expand EMT and paramedic training to four Arkansas college sites.

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This report contains disturbing information involving a child victim. JONESBORO, Ark. — A Virginia man accused of repeatedly sexually assaulting a 7-year-old girl in Jonesboro has pleaded guilty to rape and five counts of possession or use of child sexual abuse material. Brandon Kyle Moore, 26, of Virginia Beach, was sentenced Thursday, Sept. 24, to life in prison for rape. Circuit Judge Scott Ellington also imposed a 10-year prison term on each of the five child sexual abuse material counts, with an additional 10 years suspended on each count.

Parents, students and other Watson Elementary community members lined up at a Little Rock School Board meeting Thursday to call on the board to keep their school open.

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The Justice Department is lifting a school desegregation order in Louisiana dating to the Civil Rights Movement, calling its continued existence a "historical wrong" and suggesting that others across ...

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The White House says a media ban is needed to protect national security. But one of the stories it cited as a threat came straight from the vice president.